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Vegas - Dad's Secret, Surreal Drive Home

DAD'S ELEVEN HOUR DRIVE TO HIS VEGAS HOME FROM MINE IN CALIFORNIA GOLD COUNTRY OFFERS STUNNING, SURREAL, MOUNTAIN, LAKE AND DESERT LANDSCAPES FROM LAKE TAHOE TO LAS VEGAS VIA MONO LAKE. VIRTUALLY NO TRAFFIC MOST OF THE WAY MAKES THIS A DREAM-LIKE DRIVE THROUGH MAGICAL AND VARIED TERRAINS. From Tahoe - highways 89E to 395S to 120E to 6N to 95S to Vegas.

Snow capped Boundary Peak , which literally marks the boundary between California and Nevada, frames these fascinating sandstone cliffs just outside Benton Hot Springs, CA on a lonely stretch of state highway 120 near Benton Crossing Road. Truly in the middle-of-nowhere with a stark beauty that captures that solitary spirit.

Monitor Summit marks the exit (CA State highway 89) from the Sierra Nevada mountains down to Antelope Valley and highway 395 to Mono Lake. The summit offers views of the rich valley farmland and the distant peaks of Boundary Peak (center) which marks the state boundary between California and Nevada.

Bridgeport, CA is a beautiful small town between the Sierra Nevada mountain range and Nevada's Great Desert Basin. Here, the rays of the sun burst through the clouds to highlight the pastoral beauty of the middle ground community.

Landscape Folder - Highway 6, Nevada-California Border on way to Mono Lake- Nevada Desert Basin on lonely highway 6 leading to Mono Lake. Once a 500 feet deep lake, the broad, seemingly infinite desert basin, stretch hundreds of miles north, south and east of this point..

Along Nevada State Highway 95 one can see explicit examples of the ancient seabeds that formed today's desert basin uplifted vertically in striated bands scoring the surrounding hillsides which rise straight up from the surrounding desert sands.

Sagehen Summit marks the high point between the Nevada's Great Desert Basin and Mono Lake before reaching California's Sierra Nevada mountain range visible in the distance. The famed Yosemite Valley lies just on the other side of those distant mountains.